The surprising election by Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) of two new leaders-- Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken-- who have been strongly critical of the already-shaky “grand coalition” with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU has thrown the future of German politics into question—again. At the same time, the Greens and the far-right AfD are growing in popularity and vying for power. Is the German political system going through a “slow-burning revolution”?